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I remember having read a story that said (sorry I haven't bothered to re-find the source) that, among Steve Jobs' leaked emails, a large percentage of emails co
by tianqi 4y ago
I remember having read a story that said (sorry I haven't bothered to re-find the source) that, among Steve Jobs' leaked emails, a large percentage of emails contained only one word: No.
Interestingly, there was an email sent to him by Kim Jong Un requesting an iPod. Steve generously replied to him with two words: Hell no.
- baxtr 4y agoThat's super interesting. Can you share a link? (Now that someone is asking, maybe you bother to find it? Also, please don't say no to this...)
- shawabawa3 4y agofound a source but I don't trust it https://scoopertino.com/wikileaks-releases-140000-emails-from-steve-jobs/ https://scoopertino.com/wikileaks-releases-140000-emails-fro... edit: it's a fake news site > By now, you probably have realized that this was just a joke by Scoopertino, a website dedicated to sharing “unreal Apple news”.
- kyleyeats 4y ago"No" is so much more polite than what people do today which is just ignoring something forever.
- nonrandomstring 4y ago"No" is an important word because it's the only way you can say "yes". Imagine computers with only 1s and no zeros. Unless you can say no, you cannot wholeheartedly say yes. An offer you cannot refuse, or a question to which there is only one answer, are neither offers nor questions. Schopenhauer made the general semantic observation; in a world where everything is X, ipso facto nothing is X. Yes-men are really "nothing men".